EP3079401B1 - Prüfung auf nutzung von dynamichen pre-konfigurationen während eines gsm-umts-inter-system-handovers - Google Patents
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- the present invention relates to the field of cellular telephony, and more particularly to the transmission of information from a cellular network to a mobile station concerning handover between cells using different radio access technologies, such as from a cell using a radio access technology according to the Global System for Mobile communications (GSM) to a cell using radio access technology according to the Universal Mobile Telephone System (UMTS) Terrestrial Radio Access Network (UTRAN).
- GSM Global System for Mobile communications
- UMTS Universal Mobile Telephone System
- UTRAN Universal Mobile Telephone System
- a cellular network including different cellular systems, such as GSM and UMTS, which uses so-called wideband code division multiple access (WCDMA) and for which access is provided by UTRAN
- WCDMA wideband code division multiple access
- UTRAN handover/cell re-selection for a mobile station fast enough, i.e. to make a suitably fast handover from GSM, the current radio access technology (RAT), to UTRAN, the target RAT
- RAT radio access technology
- RAT radio access technology
- standards specify the preconfiguration parameters, i.e.
- preconfiguration parameters are parameters indicating transport block size, transport block set size, spreading factor, CRC, and TTI (transmission time interval) value.
- static preconfiguration parameters are parameters indicating transport block size, transport block set size, spreading factor, CRC, and TTI (transmission time interval) value.
- static preconfiguration parameters are specified in the standards, a mobile station can be expected to know the parameters (i.e. their values) for each static preconfiguration, usually maintaining the static configurations in memory.
- dynamic configurations are usually information about the operation of the target RAT in addition to what is provided in any of the static preconfigurations.
- a dynamic configuration can also be complete in and of itself, i.e. it can specify all of the configuration parameters of the target RAT by itself, instead of supplementing the information provided by a static preconfiguration, and so by itself completely specify the configuration of the target RAT.
- the sets of preconfiguration parameters making up a dynamic configuration must be provided to the mobile station dynamically, i.e. at or near the time of handover of the mobile station from GSM to UTRAN.
- the required parameter values are specified for each (hardcoded) preconfiguration.
- the UE maintains these (hardcoded) preconfigurations in memory.
- SIB type 16 defines dynamic configurations, which are referred to as predefined configurations in section 13.7 of TS25.331.
- SIB type 16 contains radio bearer, transport channel, and physical channel parameters to be held in memory by the UE.
- System information is specified to contain a preconfiguration identity and a value tag to identify a certain dynamic configuration as well as updates to dynamic configurations, if needed.
- WCDMA is the most widely adopted air interface for so-called third generation wireless communication systems, where GSM is the corresponding interface for so-called second generation (i.e. digital) wireless communication systems.
- GSM Global System for Mobile communications
- Second generation wireless communication systems First generation systems are analog.
- WCDMA is referred to as UTRA (Universal Terrestrial Radio Access), and can be either WCDMA FDD (frequency division duplex) or WCDMA TDD (time division duplex).
- transport channels which are mapped to different physical channels in the physical layer.
- transport channels Two types of transport channels exist: dedicated channels (each identified by a certain code on a certain frequency and so reserved for a single user) and common channels (a resource divided between all or a group of users in a cell).
- BCH broadcast channel
- BCH broadcast channel
- logical channel logical channel
- BCCH logical channel
- the corresponding transport channel is referred to as the broadcast channel (transport channel).
- the Primary Common Control Physical Channel (Primary CCPCH) is the physical channel carrying the Broadcast Channel (BCH). It needs to be demodulated by all the mobile stations in the system. As a result, the parameters with respect to (for example) the channel coding and spreading code contain no flexibility, as they need to be known by all terminals made since the publication of what are called the Release-99 specifications. The contents of the signaling messages have room for flexibility as long as the new message structures are such that they do not cause unwanted or unpredictable behavior in the mobile stations deployed in the network.
- the logical channels are mapped to the physical channels in what is called the media access control (MAC) layer.
- a set of logical channel types is defined for the different kinds of data transfer services offered by the MAC layer. Each logical channel type is defined by the type of information transferred.
- the BCCH is a logical downlink (from base station to mobile station) channel used for broadcasting system control information.
- the BCCH is mapped to (connected to) the BCH (physical channel) in the MAC layer. (It may also be mapped to what is called the FACH, i.e. the forward access (physical) channel.)
- UMTS BCCH and UMTS BCH represent the same channel in UMTS.
- BCCH is used to point to the logical channel
- BCH is used to point to the actual transport channel being carried on the Primary CCPCH as described in 3GPP TS 25.211, v. 3.4.0, sections/ chapters 4-6.
- GSM BCCH capacity is limited, and is not a suitable means for transferring additional (dynamic) preconfiguration parameters to a mobile station. However the transfer might be done, it is advantageous to keep the mobile station power consumption as low as possible. Therefore, when dynamic configurations are transmitted on the UTRA BCCH, it is necessary for example that these dynamic configurations be repeated in the system information of the UTRA BCCH often enough so that the UE need not continue to decode the UTRA BCCH for too long a time. In other words, the UE should not have to wait too long for the dynamic configurations to appear again. On the other hand, the UE should not attempt to decode the UTRA BCCH when UTRAN quality (coverage) is poor or if dynamic configurations are not used in the network. Unnecessary decoding of UTRA BCCH increases the idle mode activity of the UE and so increases power consumption.
- TFCs channel transport format combinations
- R2-002015 proposes a proposal from Vodafone (R2-002015) in which additional (dynamic) preconfiguration parameters are transferred from a cellular network (i.e. a base station) to a mobile station, but the proposal does not indicate how the transfer could be done fast enough (and also reliably enough) to provide for handover/cell reselection with acceptably low power consumption by the mobile station.
- the prior art does not teach how to avoid so-called ping-ponging (handover/cell reselection back and forth from one system to another) in inter-RAT (Radio Access Technologies) cell reselection, i.e. in selecting between for example GSM and WCDMA (UTRA).
- ping-ponging handover/cell reselection back and forth from one system to another
- inter-RAT Radio Access Technologies
- WCDMA Wireless Fidelity
- An example provides a method for a mobile station and a base station to which the mobile is being handed over, and corresponding apparatuses for use by the mobile and the base station.
- the method for use by the mobile station is for determining whether dynamic configurations are in use by the base station to which the mobile is being handed over, the base station to which the mobile is being handed over being of a first wireless communication system (such as the universal mobile telephone system terrestrial radio access (UTRA)) and the base station doing the handing over being of a different wireless communication system (such as the global system for mobile communications (GSM) wireless communication system).
- a first wireless communication system such as the universal mobile telephone system terrestrial radio access (UTRA)
- GSM global system for mobile communications
- the method for use by the mobile station includes: a) a step of determining whether the signal level of the control signal broadcast by the different wireless communication system meets a predetermined criterion for intersystem reselection; b) a step of receiving the control signal broadcast by the first wireless communication system; c) a step of performing an error check of the received control signal broadcast by the first wireless communication system; and d) a step of decoding the control signal broadcast by the first wireless communication system and in so doing, reading whatever dynamic configurations are being broadcast by the base station of the first wireless communication system; wherein, if the error check fails, the mobile station performs a step of waiting a predetermined time interval, and then repeats the method beginning with the step of receiving the control signal from the first wireless communication system.
- the mobile also performs a step of decoding the control signal broadcast by the different wireless communication system and reading a flag bit indicating whether or not the base station of the first wireless communication system is using dynamic configurations, and then only if the flag bit indicates that the base station of the first wireless communication system is using dynamic configurations does the mobile station receive and decode the control signal broadcast by the first wireless communication system carry out the aforementioned steps (a)-(d) .
- the corresponding method for use by the base station of the first wireless communication system in determining whether or not to use dynamic configurations in communicating with the mobile station being handed over by the base station of a different wireless communication system assumes that the mobile station communicates with the base station of the first wireless communication according to a protocol in which a transport format combination indicator (TFCI) is used (at least by the mobile), and includes: a) a step of transmitting to and receiving from the mobile station with using dynamic configuration parameters; b) a step of examining the uplink TFCI to determine whether the TFCI points to a dynamic configuration; and c) a step of continuing to transmit to and receive from the mobile station with the dynamic configuration pointed to by the uplink TFCI, if the uplink TFCI points to a dynamic configuration, and otherwise a step of transmitting to and receiving from the mobile station using a static preconfiguration.
- TFCI transport format combination indicator
- an example includes a method and corresponding apparatus for use by a mobile station including the steps of: a) receiving at a mobile station a broadcast control signal issuing from a base station to which the mobile station is being handed over by another base station; and b) based on an error check of the broadcast control signal, either reading any dynamic configuration indicated by the broadcast control signal or waiting until a predetermined time to repeat the aforementioned step (a).
- the steps (a)-(b) are performed only if a flag bit received from the base station handing over the mobile station indicates that dynamic configurations are in use at the base station to which the mobile station is being handed over.
- an example also includes a corresponding method (and corresponding apparatus) for use by a base station, including the steps of: a) receiving at the base station a signal from a mobile station indicating a dynamic configuration or a state preconfiguration in use by the mobile station; and b) using dynamic configuration parameters or static preconfiguration parameters in said base station depending on said signal received from said mobile station.
- the present invention is an improvement over what is provided by the prior art in that with the present invention it is possible to avoid complex double cell reselection criteria based on some prioritization depending on whether dynamic configuration parameters are available or not.
- a mobile station should give priority to GSM over UTRA if the mobile station has not been able to receive dynamic configurations even though the UTRA network is transmitting them on the UTRA BCCH.
- UTRA should be given priority over GSM if the dynamic configurations are not obtained by the mobile station. If this kind of prioritization is used in cell reselection, it should be taken into account in the cell reselection criteria of both GSM and UTRA in order to avoid having a mobile station change back and forth between radio access technologies. If prioritization is for example only defined in the cell reselection criteria of the GSM specification, it might happen that the prioritization rules in cell reselection criteria tends to push a mobile station toward using UTRA.
- the invention defines a mechanism to recover from a situation where the UTRA network uses dynamic configurations (transmitting them on UTRA BCCH as well), but the mobile station has not been able to receive them from UTRA BCCH due to poor UTRA signal quality or because the mobile station has been in GSM dedicated mode and does not have a dual receiver for receiving both GSM and UTRA data simultaneously.
- mobile station power consumption can be decreased in examples, since according to examples, a UE periodically looks for dynamic configurations only if the signal level of the measured GSM signal is either above or below a predetermined threshold (depending on the implementation) based on the measurement criterion for cell reselection defined between UMTS and GSM.
- a predetermined threshold depending on the implementation
- the network operator can control terminal power by setting the threshold so that the UE need not attempt to read dynamic configurations when the signal quality of the UTRA network is not adequate.
- the network can choose to use either dynamic configurations or (hardcoded, i.e. static) preconfigurations, depending on what sort of configurations the network supports and what services the operator would like to provide.
- the present invention is a method and protocol for use in case of a handover of a mobile station from a cell using GSM to a cell using UTRA; it provides for having the mobile station acquire dynamic configuration parameters, if practicable, to be used in operation in the UTRA cell.
- Dynamic configuration parameters as opposed to static preconfiguration parameters (organized into sets, each set describing a particular configuration, the sets specified by a standard and so known in advance to any mobile able to operate in a UTRA cell), are not a priori known to the mobile station and so must be communicated to the mobile station.
- the dynamic configuration parameters may be in addition to the static configuration parameters to fully specify a configuration, or may be used by themselves. Examples of preconfiguration parameters include parameters indicating transport block size, transport block set size, spreading factor, CRC in use, and TTI (transmission time interval) value.
- the preconfiguration parameter values are provided to a mobile station according to one of three methods, as described below.
- Some mobile stations are equipped to read dynamic configuration parameters and some are not, and the base station to which a mobile station is being handed over must determine which is the case.
- the examples include methods by which a mobile station undergoing a GSM to UTRA handover is to obtain dynamic configurations for use in the UTRA cell (either a set of parameters and their values or sets of values of parameters and their values along with an indicator of which set to use) from the base station (node B) to which the mobile station is being handed over (at least in the case that the mobile station is equipped to read dynamic configuration parameters), and also a method, in case of a GSM to UTRA handover, setting out steps to be followed by the UTRA base station (a so-called node B) by which to determine whether the mobile station has read its dynamic configuration parameters or not (the mobile station not having done so because either it is not equipped to do so, or signal conditions are too poor for it to do so).
- a network could provide a cell operating according to GSM and another cell according to UTRA, and the base station (node B) for the cell operating according to UTRA could operate according to parameters indicated by a predefined static configuration (i.e. a preconfiguration) and, in addition, according to parameters not predetermined, but instead defined dynamically.
- a predefined static configuration i.e. a preconfiguration
- the UTRA base station could use a default channel preconfiguration indicator having eight possible values (i.e. eight values for the single (hardcoded) preconfiguration indicator, each of the eight values indicating a different preconfiguration as defined by standards).
- the network via either the GSM base station or the UTRA base station, must inform the mobile station of the value of the preconfiguration indicator. To do so would require transmitting to the mobile station three bits, which would be done, according to examples, using a dedicated handover command message (more specifically, a handover to UTRAN command message).
- the network could have defined four additional, dynamic configuration parameter values, which, according to examples, are also signaled to the mobile station on UMTS BCCH (along with the three-bit indicator for the static preconfiguration parameters).
- the network (and more particularly, the subject node B) broadcasts only the specific additional dynamic configuration parameters it uses, not sets of dynamic configuration parameters, and so the mobile station need not acquire sets of dynamic configuration parameters and also an indicator for indicating which dynamic configuration set to use, but instead only the additional configuration parameters used by the node B.
- a mobile maintains a copy of all (hardcoded) preconfigurations in a memory device, so that when a handover from GSM to UTRAN command message is issued by the GSM network, the GSM network need not send to the mobile station actual parameters used to initiate a dedicated channel connection in UTRAN. Instead, similar to what is described in the above example, the GSM network can refer to a certain specific (static) preconfiguration using a certain parameter value (i.e..a preconfiguration indicator). (A GSM to UTRAN handover command is sent via the GSM network to the mobile phone.
- the Handover to UTRAN message is first sent from the UTRAN network to the GSM network, and then on to the mobile phone.
- dynamic configurations sets of parameters
- the dynamic configuration parameters may of course differ from network to network, i.e. from one public land mobile network (PLMN) to another (but are the same for different node Bs within a PLMN.
- PLMN public land mobile network
- UTRAN must broadcast the actual preconfiguration parameters for each dynamic configuration (i.e. for each different set of dynamic configuration parameters) along with an indicator, or, alternatively, the actual dynamic configuration parameters it uses (their identity and values).
- (hardcoded) preconfiguration indicators and dynamic configuration indicators must be distinguishable.
- Each dynamic configuration (as well as each preconfiguration) includes several parameters relating to both for downlink and uplink.
- handover is commanded (by a GSM base station, only one preconfiguration is referred to in the command.
- the preconfiguration referred to defines all needed parameters both for uplink and downlink.
- the examples include two parts: firstly, two alternative ways by which a mobile station learns whether or not a UTRAN cell uses dynamic configurations, and if so, a way to receive the information specifying the dynamic configuration in use; and secondly, a protocol to be followed by a UTRAN cell using dynamic configurations in communicating with a mobile station, including how to communicate with the mobile whether or not the mobile station is prepared to use the dynamic configurations.
- a decision step 11 the mobile station determines whether the GSM signal level meets predefined (predetermined) criteria, i.e. whether the signal level (or signal quality) of the measured GSM signal, as provided for example by the received signal strength indicator (RSSI), is above (or below) a predetermined threshold (depending on the implementation, as mentioned above) based on the measurement criterion for cell reselection defined between UMTS and GSM. (If the received signal strength is not adequate, i.e.
- the threshold used for inter-system reselection is transmitted on a downlink channel, such as the broadcast channel, available to the mobile station, and in particular the GSM BCCH when the handover/cell reselection is from a GSM cell to a UTRA cell.) If the GSM signal level meets the predefined criteria, then, in a next step 12, in order to determine whether dynamic configurations are in use, the mobile station periodically receives and attempts to decode the UMTS BCCH. After receiving the UMTS BCCH, in a next decision step 13, the mobile station decides whether or not the received signal passes a CRC check.
- the mobile station reads dynamic configurations from the UMTS BCCH, if they are present, and so determines whether or not the UTRA cell uses dynamic configurations, and if so, what they are. If the received GSM UMTS signal does not pass the CRC check, then in a step 14, the mobile station waits for an interval T_attempt between receiving the UMTS BCCH to elapse, and then again tries the step 12 of receiving the UMTS BCCH. The time interval T_attempt is used in order to avoid having the mobile station attempt to decode the UMTS BCCH, continuously. (Such attempts would interfere with paging reception in GSM, and they would also result in increased IDLE mode activity.)
- the receiving and decoding of the UMTS BCCH (performed before the actual handover from GSM to UTRA), to obtain the dynamic configuration parameters in use by the node B (or, instead, sets of dynamic configuration parameters and an indicator of which set is in use) is performed while the mobile is in IDLE mode (between paging receptions).
- the GSM base station transmits a flag bit over the GSM BCCH indicating whether or not the node B uses dynamic configurations and in a first step 20 (by the mobile), the mobile station receives the GSM BCCH and decodes it so as to read the flag bit.
- the mobile station determines whether the flag bit indicates that dynamic configurations are in use by the UTRA cell, and if the flag bit indicates that dynamic configurations are in use, then the mobile station obtains the dynamic configurations as in the above-described method relying on using an interval T_attempt between reading the GSM BCCH.
- the mobile station determines whether the GSM signal level meets predefined criteria, i.e. whether the signal level (or signal quality) of the measured GSM signal is above (or below) a predetermined threshold (depending on the implementation, as mentioned above) based on the measurement criterion for cell reselection defined between UMTS and GSM.
- the mobile station periodically receives and attempts to decode the GSM BCCH.
- the mobile station decides whether or not the received signal passes a CRC check. If so, then in a next step 25, the mobile station reads the dynamic configurations from the UMTS BCCH (which are known to be present because the flag bit has so indicated), and so learns what dynamic configurations are in use by the UTRA cell. If the received GSM BCCH signal does not pass the CRC check, then in a step 24, the mobile station waits for an interval T_attempt between receiving the GSM BCCH to elapse, and then again tries the step 22 of receiving the UMTS BCCH.
- the receiving and decoding of the UMTS BCCH (performed before the actual handover from GSM to UTRA) performed in the method illustrated in Fig. 2 , is performed while the mobile is in IDLE mode (between paging receptions). Note that in the method illustrated in Fig. 2 , the mobile station does not have to decode the UMTS BCCH transmission if the flag bit provided by the GSM base station indicates that dynamic configurations are not in use by the node B.
- a method for having- a UTRA base station determine whether or not to use dynamic configuration parameters in communicating with a mobile undergoing a handover from a GSM base station
- a method to be followed by a UTRA node B that from time to time uses one or another dynamic configuration, in determining whether or not to use one or another such dynamic configuration in communicating with a mobile station being handed over to it from a GSM cell is shown as beginning with a first decision step 31 from which the node B proceeds to one of two possible courses 32 33 depending on whether the node B is currently using one or another of the dynamic configuration.
- the method therefore relies on information about the dynamic configurations having been broadcast via the UMTS BCCH.
- the node B If the node B is currently using dynamic configurations, it must decide whether to use dynamic configurations or (hardcoded) preconfigurations in communicating with the mobile being handed over to it from a GSM cell, based on whether or not the mobile phone can read the dynamic configurations.
- a mobile station might not be able to read dynamic configurations either because the mobile station does not have the capability to do so or because external factors such as factors causing bad reception prevent the mobile station from reading the dynamic configurations.
- the node B if the node B is using dynamic configuration parameters, to determine whether the mobile has detected the dynamic configuration parameters, in a decision step 34, the node B examines the uplink transmission to whether a code word in the so-called Transport Format Combination Indicator (TFCI) indicates a dynamic configuration, and depending on the outcome of the determination proceeds in one of two possible courses 35 36.
- TFCI Transport Format Combination Indicator
- Such a code word would indicate a particular transport format combination set appropriate for the source data rate, as set out by TS25.212, section 4.2.7 and 4.3, the code words used in connection with a dynamic configuration being different from the code words used in connection with a static preconfiguration.
- the DPCCH Dedicated Physical Control Channel
- SF spreading factor
- the node B determines that the uplink TFCI does point to a dynamic configuration, then in a next step 35, the node B continues communication with the mobile station using the dynamic configuration, else, in a next step 36, the node B uses downlink parameters according to a corresponding static preconfiguration (There are only a few different preconfigurations for each different service, e.g.
- the network and the terminal can do one-to-one mapping from a dynamic configuration to a preconfiguration (based on the data rate and spreading factor). So if for downlink, the network has first used a dynamic configuration for data rate C, it then uses the corresponding preconfiguration for the same data rate C.)
- the dynamic configuration pointed to by the TFCI need not be (and usually is not) the same dynamic configuration as used by the node B in downlink.
- Uplink and downlink configurations often differ; for example, the uplink data rate is often different from the downlink data rate.
- the network knows that the mobile has received the dynamic configuration parameters from UTRA BCCH, and so the network can continue using dynamic configurations. It is naturally assumed that the mobile has received all (or at least all relevant) dynamic configuration parameters if the terminal indicates a dynamic configuration in its uplink.
- the node B In first communicating with the mobile station (in step 32), before ascertaining whether the mobile station is using the dynamic configuration in use by the node B (as per step 31, the node B should use as a dynamic configuration one for which the parameters (like spreading factor as well as the DPCCH structure) are the same as for the preconfiguration (i.e. there should be a one-to-one mapping between dynamic configurations and preconfigurations, both for the downlink and the uplink), ensuring that communication control parameters such as power control are handled without a problem whether or not the mobile station can read the dynamic configurations).
- the network is to replace the downlink DPDCH (dedicated physical data channel) part defined for the dynamic configuration with the DPDCH defined for the (hardcoded) preconfiguration.
- the determination can be made by examining the set of TFCI code words the mobile station transmits to the node B. If the TFCI code words for the (hardcoded) preconfiguration are detected, then the downlink DPDCH is to be adjusted as described (assuming the DPCCH parameters were the same for both preconfigurations, otherwise the DPCCH parameters need to be adjusted in the same way, i.e. the dynamic configuration DPCCH values must be replaced by the static preconfiguration DPCCH values used by the mobile).
- a downlink dedicated physical channel (DPCH) radio frame per TS25.211 v3.5.0, section 5.3.2, is shown as including 15 slots, with each slot consisting of number N data1 of bits in the DPDCH, a number N TPC + N TFCI of bits in the DPCCH, where the number N TPC of bits indicates the TPC and the number N TFCI of bits indicates the TFCI, a number N DATA2 of bits also from the DPDCH, and finally, a number N pilot of bits also from the DPCCH.
- Some different slot formats are indicated in table 1 below, which is partial reproduction of table 11 of TS25.211 v3.5.0, section 5.3.2. Table 1. Some formats for a DPCH radio frame, from table 11 of TS25.211 V3.5.0, section 5.3.2. k value Slot Format #i Channe 1Bit Rate (kbps) Channel Symbol Rate (ksps) SF Bits/ Slot DPDCH Bits/Slot DPCCH Bits/Slot Transmitted slots per radio frame N Tr N Data1 N Data2 N TPC N TFCI N Pilot 0 0 15 7.5 512 10 0 4 2 0 4 15 0 OA 15 7.5 512 10 0 4 2 0 4 8-14 1 0B 30 15 25b 20 0 8 4 0 8 8-14 0 1 15 7.5 512 10 0 2 2 2 4 15 1 1B 30 15 256 20 0 4 4 4 8-14 1 2 30 15 256 20 0 4 4 4 8-14 1 2 30 15 256 20 0 4 4 4 8-14 1 2 30 15
- N TPC of TPC bits is either 2, 4, or 8, and, as indicated in table 2, which is a reproduction of table 13 of TS25.211 V3.5.0, section 5.3.2, all of the bits are either a 0 or a 1, depending on whether the transmitter power control command is a 0 or a 1 (respectively).
- a mobile station can determine whether the transmitter power control is a 1 or a 0 even if the mobile station receives only one of the TPC bits.
- the slot format for the dynamic configuration may still differ from what the slot format would be for the corresponding preconfiguration; thus, the DPCCH structure for the dynamic configuration may still differ from what it would be for the corresponding preconfiguration, as e.g. the power control command slot position (in the frame) is always fixed thus and can be detected whenever the spreading factor is known.
- the number of pilot symbols can differ from slot format to slot format even if the spreading factors remain the same.
- the power control command can always be detected as long as the spreading factor remains the same, since only one TPC bit must be determined to determine the power control command (because all the TPC bits are either one or zero, depending on whether the power control command is a one or a zero) although detecting more than one TPC bit is always preferable for greater reliability. In order to maintain reasonable system performance, it is essential to detect the power control command.) If the number of pilot bits in the DPCCH field for the dynamic configuration and the preconfigurations are not the same, then there is some degradation in the channel estimation process. (For example, the slot format of a dynamic configuration may have eight pilot symbols, and the slot format of a preconfiguration only four pilot symbols. Since these known pilot symbols are used for estimating channel, the difference in the number of pilot symbols causes degradation in the estimation process.)
- the mobile station When the mobile station is undergoing a handover from GSM to UTRAN, it is already using a particular service and so a particular data rate in communicating via GSM. The service being used should be maintained during handover. Since the mobile station knows its current service and data rate in GSM prior to handover, it can determine which (UTRAN) preconfiguration matches its data rate in GSM. The mobile has to choose both a matching uplink and downlink configuration based on the current uplink and downlink data rates. Once the mobile receives a handover command from the GSM side to switch from GSM to UTRAN, the mobile station knows to use either the (hardcoded) preconfiguration parameters or dynamic configuration parameters because the handover command includes an index pointing either to a dynamic configuration or to the (hardcoded) preconfiguration.
- the mobile station has whatever dynamic configuration parameters it needs, and will use them for the dedicated channel transmission after the handover procedure is complete (including synchronization and so on). If the mobile station has not been able to acquire (read) the dynamic configuration parameters prior to handover, then it automatically uses the (hardcoded) preconfiguration parameters and their values (stored in the memory of the mobile station). Since the uplink and downlink data rates may differ, the mobile station must be sure to use a preconfiguration for which both the uplink and downlink data rates match those it is using in GSM.
- the mobile station 50 includes: an antenna 52 for enabling reception of signals, a receiver (RX) module 53 for receiving signals on various channels including broadcast control signals from UMTS and GSM base stations (i.e. signals on the GSM BCCH and on the UMTS BCCH), a decoder 54 for decoding the received signal, and also a controller/ timer 55.
- the signal level (as indicated by for example by the RSSI) is determined from the received signal by the receiver 53, and CRC checks are performed by the decoder 54.
- the CRC checks and the signal level (RSSI) are both provided to the controller/timer module 55, which controls the reception modules so as to receive the preconfigurations as described in the above described different examples of the methods illustrated in Figs. 1 and 2 . It is the controller/ timer module 55 that executes the method of the the example indicated in Fig. 1 . Based on the logic indicated in Figs.
- the controller/ timer 55 provides a decoder control signal to the decoder 54 to extract (read) dynamic configurations from the received UMTS BCCH, and (alternatively) a receiver control signal to the receiver 53 to again receive the UMTS BCCH (after a failed CRC check and after the controller/ timer waits a period T_attempt since the last failed CRC check).
- the decoder 54 provides a flag bit extracted from a received GSM BCCH signal, and the controller/ timer uses the flag bit to determine whether dynamic configurations are in use.
- the allocation of functions indicated in Fig. 5 between the receiver 53 and the decoder 54 is in some respects arbitrary, and the example is more generally represented in terms of a combined receiver/ decoder module 56, as indicated in Fig. 5 .
- the apparatus 61 includes: an antenna 52 for transmitting and receiving signals to and from a plurality of mobile stations; a transceiver (TRX) module 63 for providing as transmitter signals the signals to be transmitted to the mobile stations, the transmitter signals including broadcast control signals (UMTS BCCH) and also other signals, and for receiving (RAT) signals from the mobile stations, the . received signals including an uplink TFCI (which can indicate a dynamic configuration); a decoder 64 for decoding any received signal and so providing an uplink TFCI included in any received signal; and a controller 65.
- TRX transceiver
- UMTS BCCH broadcast control signals
- RAT radio access control signals
- the controller is provided with the uplink TFCI from a mobile station by the decoder, and based on the uplink TFCI determines how to communicate with the mobile station, based on the steps indicated in Fig. 3 .
- the decision whether or not a base station (node B) is to use dynamic configurations at all is typically made by the Radio Network Controller (RNC) controlling the base station, not by the base station.
- RNC Radio Network Controller
- the allocation of functions indicated in Fig. 6 between the transceiver 63 and the decoder 64 is also in some respects arbitrary, and the technology is more generally represented in terms of a combined transceiver/ decoder module 66, as indicated in Fig. 6 .
- the decoding of the UMTS BCCH signal to obtain the dynamic configuration parameters can be performed using any of the various known methods.
- the implementation of the CRC i.e. how many bits are used for CRC
- the RSSI can be determined by detecting the received RF signal level; the signal level is then converted to digital form by an A/D converter and provided to the controller/timer module ( Fig. 4 ).
- the reception of the UMTS BCCH transmission is preferably done, as mentioned above, between paging receptions. It is assumed that the controller/timer module is aware of the paging reception timing interval information, which depends on the telecommunication standard in use.
- the controller/timer module uses the paging reception information and the timer interval T_attempt to control the reception circuits of the device. In other words, the controller/timer module then controls the reception module so as to have it repeatedly try to read the dynamic configuration parameters, waiting a time interval T_attempt, set by the standard in use, between each attempt. A new attempt is of course only made if the previous attempt failed.
- the timer interval T_attempt and the optional bit would preferably be defined by a standard.
- the requirement for decoding dynamic configuration parameters in respect to the timer interval T_attempt should also be set out in a standard.
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- Verfahren zur Verwendung durch eine Basisstation (60) eines ersten drahtlosen Kommunikationssystems beim Bestimmen, ob dynamische Konfigurationen beim Kommunizieren mit einer Mobilstation, die durch eine Basisstation eines unterschiedlichen drahtlosen Kommunikationssystems übergeben wird, verwendet werden sollen oder nicht, wobei die Kommunikation aus Aufwärtsstreckensignalen von der Mobilstation zu der Basisstation des ersten drahtlosen Kommunikationssystems und Abwärtsstreckensignalen von der Basisstation des ersten drahtlosen Kommunikationssystems zu der Mobilstation besteht und die Mobilstation mit der Basisstation von der ersten drahtlosen Kommunikation gemäß einem Protokoll kommuniziert, in dem ein Transportformatkombinationsindikator verwendet wird, wobei das Verfahren umfasst:a) einen Schritt (32) des Sendens an und des Empfangens von der Mobilstation unter Verwendung des dynamischen Konfigurationsparameters;b) einen Schritt (34) des Prüfens des Aufwärtsstreckentransportformatkombinationsindikators, um zu bestimmen, ob der Transportformatkombinationsindikator auf eine dynamische Konfiguration zeigt; undc) einen Schritt (35) des Fortsetzens des Sendens an und Empfangens von der Mobilstation mit der dynamischen Konfiguration, auf die durch den Aufwärtsstreckentransportformatkombinationsindikator gezeigt wird, wenn der Aufwärtsstreckentransportformatkombinationsindikator auf eine dynamische Konfiguration zeigt, und anderweitig einen Schritt (36) des Sendens an und Empfangens von der Mobilstation unter Verwendung einer statischen Vorkonfiguration.
- Verfahren nach Anspruch 1, wobei das erste drahtlose Kommunikationssystem das drahtlose Kommunikationssystem terrestrisches UMTS- (Universal Mobile Telephone System) -Funkzugangskommunikationssystem ist und die Basisstation von dem ersten drahtlosen Kommunikationssystem ein Knoten B ist.
- Verfahren nach Anspruch 1, wobei das unterschiedliche drahtlose Kommunikationssystem das drahtlose Kommunikationssystem Global System for Mobile Communication ist.
- Vorrichtung (61) zur Verwendung durch eine Basisstation (60) eines ersten drahtlosen Kommunikationssystems beim Bestimmen, ob dynamische Konfigurationen beim Kommunizieren mit einer Mobilstation, die durch eine Basisstation eines unterschiedlichen drahtlosen Kommunikationssystems übergeben werden, verwendet werden sollen oder nicht, umfassend:a) Mittel (62) zum Senden eines Broadcaststeuersignals und Senden an und Empfangen von der Mobilstation unter Verwendung des dynamischen Konfigurationsparameters;b) Mittel (66) zum Empfangen eines Transportformatkombinationsindikatorsignals von der Mobilstation, das eine dynamische Konfiguration oder eine statische Vorkonfiguration, die von der Mobilstation verwendet wird, anzeigt; undc) Mittel (65) zum Verwenden des dynamischen Konfigurationsparameters oder des statischen Vorkonfigurationsparameters in der Basisstation abhängig von dem von der Mobilstation empfangenen Signal.
- Vorrichtung nach Anspruch 4, wobei das erste drahtlose Kommunikationssystem das drahtlose Kommunikationssystem terrestrisches UMTS- (Universal Mobile Telephone System) -Funkzugangskommunikationssystem ist und die Basisstation ein Knoten B ist.
- Vorrichtung nach Anspruch 4, wobei das unterschiedliche drahtlose Kommunikationssystem das drahtlose Kommunikationssystem Global System for Mobile Communication ist.
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